White Chicks

USA Today Mike Clark

What we get is a tweaked variation on the litany of men-disguised-as-women comedies: "Some Like It Hot" and "Tootsie," just for starters. Obviously, this sassy farce sounds recycled and certainly appears to be in the coming attraction. Yet it's also funnier than expected in ways you wouldn't expect.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Even if it lingers a bit too long, White Chicks represents a solid accomplishment for the crowd-pleasing Wayans brothers.

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

This is the kind of film that will leave many audience members groaning with laughter -- and others simply groaning. It's skit/situation comedy that exploits stereotypes with a vengeance and knows no shame in borrowing from much better movies ranging from "Some Like It Hot" to "Tootsie."

Variety David Rooney

As lowbrow comedies go, it pretty much delivers.

Chicago Reader Staff (Not credited)

Doesn't make a lick of sense, and its borderline racism and sexism will offend plenty of people. But comedy is all salesmanship, and these guys sold me; their giddy nonchalance reminds me of kids competing to crack each other up at bedtime after mom has given them Pepsi with dinner.

Village Voice Laura Sinagra

Harmless slapstick fun.

Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand

The first family of black comedy goes at this bawdy burlesque with a broad brush. They get their laughs, but not without a lot of unsightly spillage.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A tawdry excuse for a movie, but it has a handful of shameless giggles.

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

Wisely, the filmmakers don't try to reform the real rich-bitch divas -- some cultural icons are beyond redemption.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

But it's not what the Wayans brothers do, it's how they do it. They do it funny.

New York Post Megan Lehmann

They resort too often to infantile flatulence jokes and fairly obvious gags about errant G-strings, with the anorexic plot culminating in the brothers having - yawn - learned to respect women's feelings.

San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer

In White Chicks, the gross-out humor is minimal, no character comes off too badly and lessons are learned. Oh Wayanses, where are thy teeth?

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

When Crews is onscreen, White Chicks is a film that fears nothing and no one. When he's not, it's a film too tentative and soft-hearted to scale the farcical heights to which it aspires.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

White Chicks could and should be a much more mischievous movie. A half-dozen writers have managed to create a succession of thin sketches that add up to "Some Like It Warmed Over," with a touch of stink.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

For a film that uses race, class and sexual stereotypes as the starting point, this is disappointingly skin deep.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The film feels long when it should be brisk, and it's bloated with stretches of hot, dead air. The racial kitsch goes nowhere.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The mere sight of strapping men in micro-mini skirts suffering the indignities of thong underwear, catcalls and pushy pick-up artists is good for a couple of lowbrow laughs, but they're buried pretty deep in dreck.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

Stupidity has worked for the Wayans brothers in the past, but White Chicks will likely test the patience of even their most loyal fans.

Film Threat Kevin Carr

Bottom line, the white chicks scare me. Seriously. They’re freaky looking. They are the stuff of nightmares.

Empire Angie Errigo

Be warned - Damon isn't in this one.

Premiere Aaron Hillis

Despite the attempts of the Academy Award-winning makeup artist behind Mrs. Doubtfire, these doubtful misfires can't pass as white or as chicks.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of the will to keep me in the theater.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Some film premises are so outlandish, so thinly worked out and so deep-down ridiculous that they wind up sinking the show -- and White Chicks collapses under a real doozy.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

We're bombarded by witless racial clichés, stale sexism and homophobia and enthusiastic celebrations of extreme flatulence.

The New York Times Dave Kehr

Credibility, of course, wouldn't matter if the gags were good enough, which they are not. The film quickly falls back on the gross-out jokes that have made recent American comedies such a challenge to the digestive tract.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

The script, written by the three brothers, is ludicrous and incomprehensible, and plays cat-and-mouse games with what could have been some deeply funny comments on race, wealth, and, in one inspired changing-room scene, eating disorders.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Laugh? I thought I'd never start.

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

Worthless, tasteless and unfunny.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Like its eponymous subject, it succeeds only in being shallow and crass and not very much fun to be around.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

Instead of satire, we're treated to diarrhea jokes, dogs dangled from the windows of speeding SUVs and tasteless sobriquets bestowed upon anyone who looks vaguely ethnic.

Film Threat Rick Kisonak

It's such a dumb movie, it's hard to believe it wasn't an SNL sketch first.